Distributer for typographical machines.



B. BLOCH.

DISTBIBUTER FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES.

APPLICATION men nmao. 1913.

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B. BLOCH.

DISTRIBUTEH FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. 1913.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

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BRUNO BLOCH, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOB TO MERGENTHALEB. LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISTRIBUTER FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 13, 191%.

Application filed December 30, 1913. Serial No. 809,476.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, BRUNO BLooH, mechanical engineer and patent attorney, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at 130 Chaussestrasse, Berlin, N. 4, in the Empire of Germany, have invented new and useful Improved Distributers for Typographical Machines, of which the following is a specification.

In typographical machines, particularly matrix composing and line casting machines in which the distribution of the matrices into the magazine is done by means of a toothed combination, it has already been proposed, for ll-shaped arangements of the distributer teeth to employ different tooth combinations for the two sides, of the toothing, in order to reduce the number of teeth necessary for the combination and thereby admit ofthe teeth being made larger. This proposal was not however found practicable, for the reason that the matrices, when moving along the distributer bar, owing to the varying combinations on the different sides, are released from the bar alternately by the one or the other side, which causes the matrices to swing, thus damaging the distribution combination.

The object of this invention is to reduce the number of the distributer teeth in order to make the teeth stronger or the matrices smaller. To this end, the distributer bar and the whole font of matrices are each divided into a certain number of groups, the same tooth combination being repeated within each group, so that a reduced number of different combinations, and therefore a reduced number of teeth suffices. The single groups have special guide rails, which conduct the matrices to that part of the distributer bar by which this particular group of matrices is distributed. This idea may be carried out in such a manner that in case of a ll-shaped distributer toothing on the matrices, only the one one side is used for the tooth combination,v while the other carries guide teeth engaging guide ribs running along the distributer bar and ending at clifferent points, and if necessary a guide rib common to all groups, which'ribs conduct the groups of matrices to the respective divisions of the magazine.

The accompanying drawings show a constructional form of the invention for matrices with V-shaped distribution toothing.

Figures 1 to 3 show the two sides and one end of the distributer bar. Figs. 4: to 10 show the toothing of the various groups of matrices, and Fig. 11 is a sectional end elevation of a modification.

The font of matrices is shown as divided into five groups. Accordingly the distributer bar a is also divided into five groups, 6 to b". On one side of the distributer bar (0, guides such as ribs 0, are arranged, the first extending over four-fifths, the second over three-fifths, the third over two-fifths, and the fourth over one-fifth of the total length of it. On the other side, the known tooth combinations d are arranged, but in such manner that the same combination. is repeated in each of the groups 12 to If, so that a reduced numberof combinations, and also a reduced number of teeth suffice.

The matrices have on one side, corresponding to the tooth combination d on the distributer bar, the known tooth combination 6; and on the other side, they have either no guide teeth f, or one, two, three, or four such. guide teeth, according to'whether they are to fall into the magazine from the groups 6 b 6 [for To guide the matrices better, a common guide such as a ridge 9 may be arranged on the distributer bar a, and with which a notch It on all thematrices corresponds.

The guide ribs 0 are suitably arranged somewhat higher on the distributer bar a than are the combination teeth OZ. Conse quently the matrices come into contact with the combination teeth cl on the distributer bar a. only when they have reached the section on the latter which corresponds with their particular group.

The number of groups into which the whole font of matrices may be divided is of no importance, and may be made to suit circumstances. It is also of no importance so far as regards the essence of the invention, whether a V-shaped toothing is used, for an outer toothing may be employed just as well, or a toothing on an inclined or vertical wall, or a U-shaped toothing and so forth. Also the form of the teeth and the guide ribs, and the arrangement of the latter, may be varied as desired. Instead of arranging the ribs 0 higher on the bar 0/ than the teeth d, the teeth 6 on the matrices maybe higher than the teeth f, as shown in the enlarged Fig. 4.

Fig. 10 shows in what way the matrices, shown in Figs. 5 to 9 in their actual size, may be reduced in size, and still adhere to the former size of the teeth.

The modification illustrated in Fig. 11 consists in substituting guide surfaces 6 on each side of thebar a and on each side of the matrices, for the ridge 9 on the former and the notches h on the latter, the surfaces on the matrices engaging with the surfaces on the bar, and both being above the toothed combinations. As these surfaces 2' are above the toothed combinations and at a distance from each other in a lateral sense, the guidance effected is more thorough than that of a medium ridge and notch which latter obviously admits of a substantially longer swinging onthe part of the matrices.

The terms matrix, matrices,, are to be understood throughout this specification and the following claims, as including Ftype die, type dies" respectively.

' Having described my invention, I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A distributer bar having guides of different lengths for the cooperating teeth of the matrices to be distributed and tooth combinations arranged in groups in each of which the same combination is repeated.

2; A distributer bar having on one side of it, guides of different lengths for the cooperating teeth of, the matrices to be distributed and on the other side of it, tooth combinations arranged in groups in each of which the same tooth combination is repeatedt. r

3. A distributer bar having on one side ofit, toothed combinations arranged in groups in each of which the same tooth combination is repeated and having on the other side of it, guides for the cooperating teeth of the matrices to be distributed, each guide above extending through one more group than the adjacent one below and none of them extending through one of the groups.

' 4. A distributer bar having on one side of it toothed combinations arranged in groups in each of which the same tooth combin'ation is repeated andhaving on its other side, guides for the cooperating teeth of the matrices tobe distributed, the relationship of guides and tooth combinations on the distributer bar adapted to provide that the tooth combination on a matrix shall. engage with the corresponding tooth combination on the bar only when the matrix has reached the respective group on the latter.

5. A distributer bar having on one side of it tooth combinations arranged in groups in each of which the same tooth combination is repeated and on the other side of it, guides for the cooperating teeth of the matrices to be distributed, said guides located on the said bar at a higher level than the respective tooth combination.

6. A font of matrices divided into groups, the matrices of one group having the same distributing combinations as those of the other groups, and the matrices of the several groups each having a single guide-engaging tooth which is differently located on the matrices in the respective groups, in combination with a distributer bar having a plurality of groups of distributing combinations corresponding to those of the matrices and having a series of guides to distinguish as to group, the said guides being located in different positions to correspond with the different locations of the guide-engaging teeth of the matrices.

7. A font of matrices having V-shaped distributing notches and a tooth combination on one side of each notch throughout the font, and divided into groups by the other sides of each notch throughout a group having a distributer guide engaging tooth, the latter differing in position from the distributer guide engaging tooth in any other group, in combination with a V-shaped distributer bar formed on one side with a plurality of groups of tooth combinations to correspond with those of the matrices and formed on its other side with a series of guides to distinguish as to group, the said guides being differently located to cooperate with the guide-engaging teeth of the matrices.

8. A distributer bar having two sets of teeth or ribs, those of one set being cut away to provide a plurality of like groups of character distributing combinations, and those of the other set being cut away to pro vide group-distinguishing-combinations, in

combination with matrices having suitably formed teeth to cooperate with those on the bar, the said parts being relatively formed so that when the matrices are engaged with the teeth of one set they will be disengaged from those of the other set, for the purpose described.

9.. The combination in a distributer and a font of matrices both having guiding devices and toothed combinations controlling the process of distribution, of a pair of parallel vertical surfaces located on opposite sides of the distributer above its guiding devices and toothed combinations and a pair of parallel vertical surfaces throughout the font above its guiding devices and toothed combinations adapted to embrace and engage the first mentioned pair of surfaces throughout the process of distribution.

10. A series of matrices divided into with tooth combinations corresponding With 10 groups, each of the matrices being formed those of the matrices. With a V-shaped notch and provided in the In Witness whereof I have hereunto set opposite sides of said notch With unlike my hand in the presence of two Witnesses. tooth combinations, one to distribute it according to group and the other according to BRUNO BLOGH character, in combination With a V-shaped Witnesses:

distributer bar to engage Within the notches HENRY HASPER,

of the matrices and formed on opposite sides VVoLDEMAR HAUPT.

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